From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Floats that extend into the margin?
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:46:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030820114622.02c42f98@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16194.24548.111569.707123@famine.OCF.Berkeley.EDU>
At 10:35 19/08/2003 -0700, Erik George Hetzner wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am wondering if anybody has had any luck with making floats that
>extend into the margin? It's a pretty common effect and looks like:
>
>xxxxxxxxxxxx
>xxxxxxxxxxxx
>xxxxxxxx PPPPPP
>xxxxxxxx PPPPPP
>xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Where x is the text and P is a picture. I am halfway there by
>specifying a negative "margin" in \setupfloats and using a "right" or
>"left" float. This gets the text in the proper position. What I need
>to do is to move the float a certain amount to the right or left. I
>have tried making a "top" specification of "\vbox\bgroup\hskip
>Xpc\bgroup\vbox\bgroup" in my \setupfloat definition (and a "bottom"
>definition to close the groups). Is this what "top" and "bottom" are
>for? I must admit that I am not familiar with ConTeXt's float
>mechanism.
>
>I hope that this is clear to people. Any help is welcome.
see details.pdf which has a whole chapter on that kind of floatplacements
HAn s
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-20 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-19 17:35 Erik George Hetzner
2003-08-20 9:46 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2003-08-20 17:05 ` Erik George Hetzner
2003-08-21 9:30 ` Hans Hagen
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